Before the film wrapped production last fall in Kabul, Ms. Cole survived a bomb blast that shattered the windows of her hotel, machine gun fire and grim telephone threats warning her to go home.
It is a grim reminder that the threat the United States and the West have been dealing with for more than a decade may be reduced, but is not gone.
Maybe these words only sound crazy to me because I'm old enough to remember when Republicans talked about the terrorist threat with grim realism.
"The past month has been a grim reminder that this threat is ever present today in Mogadishu, and requires at the minimum an extended public information campaign to inform families of the dangers posed by ordinary-looking devices".
The book catalogues the grim history of beatings, threats and deaths of those associated with Levy.
For the next two weeks, the world's attention will be focused on Cites Cop17 as delegates discuss how best to conserve species under threat from the grim illicit wildlife trade.
He agreed that the Grim Reaper mural conveyed a threat -- "It says it all; comin' to get you" -- but added that he had just supported the removal of another, more offensive mural along the Shankhill Road.
Together, the reports offer a grim assessment of the continuing threat posed by Islamic State at a time when Iraqi forces, backed by the United States and other foreign allies, are attempting to drive the militants from their last major stronghold in that country.
Last night's suicide bombing in the English city of Manchester, which left 22 people dead, including an eight-year-old girl, and 59 hurt at a concert by the young American pop star Ariana Grande is a grim reminder of the daily threat Europe faces from extremist violence.
Later, I watch the brooding close hatreds of those scenes again, the grim beatings and the rape threats, and they are perhaps even more powerful: possibly because I have been beginning, ever so slightly, to understand the weird alchemy of good acting.
